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How science can affect ski performance - on BBC Monday 19 April 7.30 pm

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Snoworks newsletter wrote:
APRIL 19TH - BBC BANG GOES THE THEORY - BBC 1 AT 19.30HRS Our own Snoworks instructor Emma Carrick-Anderson joins the BBC 'Bang Goes The Theory' team to look at how science can effect ski performance.


I hope inner ski tip lead is covered wink
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cathy, Nice one, I have had the sky + set to record it for me Very Happy wink
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cathy wrote:
I hope inner ski tip lead is covered wink


The programme would need to be a serial to cover inner ski tip lead wink

I understand there is some good skiing coverage as well as technical chat
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cathy, Thanks
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cathy, thanks, that'll go on our list, together with those stupendous programmes coming up about maps. snowHead
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cathy, ooh thanks for that, I will definitely be watching Very Happy
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pam w, When are those on?
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tiffin there seem to be two related series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5m7w/episodes/upcoming

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2w83/episodes/upcoming

I love maps and am hoping to catch them all.
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pam w, Thanks, bit of a cartophile myself.
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Just spotted on BBC site, its about 3 different things, synopsis on sky was rather brief made it look like it was just about steam power!
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Off-topic, but for anyone interested in Maps there's an exhibition opening in a few weeks' time at the British Library http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps
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Greetings all! Little Angel
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Snoworks newsletter wrote:
APRIL 19TH - BBC BANG GOES THE THEORY - BBC 1 AT 19.30HRS Our own Snoworks instructor Emma Carrick-Anderson joins the BBC 'Bang Goes The Theory' team

Why did I read that as SnowNorks?
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
But it's a fallacy!

The design of skis as we know it & by this i mean the way they're made. Hasn't changed in over 20 years. Racers & to bring it to it's ultimate conclusion speed skiers are skiing skis made the exact same way now as they were 20 years ago. Sure there have been evolutions in shape & small additions here & there but the vast majority of these are a result of pioneering ski builders experimenting not science. Sandwich construction with a ptex base & wood cores were exactly the same then as they are now. Just ski companies glue bits on & use things like carbon fibre & titanium & various other buzz expressions & materials to attract the general public that don't know any better.
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Were cap skis around 20 years ago?
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bad_roo, Race skis are built in a standard sandwich fashion not cap style. I'm sure in certain instances manufacturers cap cover their sandwich racers skis just to make them look like the mass produced versions. Contrary to what any manufacturer claims cap skis are just a way of making skis faster & cheaper in a mass production environment any other benefit the cap construction offers is purely incidental.
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i get it - there wasn't science 20 years ago
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Arno, Laughing

Sure there have been evolutions in shape & small additions here & there but the vast majority of these are a result of pioneering ski builders experimenting not science.

frank4short, what you have described is science in the same way medicines are designed by pioneering chemists, biologists or medics experimenting is science.

Anyway I'm off to ski and thank Shane McConky for experimenting with rocker and Whitedot for the Redeemer. Cool
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Cheers for the heads up, I'll be sure to watch.
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bad_roo wrote:
Were cap skis around 20 years ago?
First Salomon ski was made around '90 so the answer is "yes".
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Great programme for me! An article on phreatomagmatic eruptions (did my undergraduate thesis on that) and a decent piece on how skis work with Emma who has coached me when skiing gates. Sweet Smile
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As usual in the evenings I couldn't get BBC1. Can't watch i-player from abroad either. Sad
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So the answer is friction and repelling water!

Sticking the emery paper to the bases and spraying them with WD40 must be the budget answer for the EOSB Madeye-Smiley
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just remember not to put liquid nitrogen (or whatever that was) on them...
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just remember not to put liquid nitrogen (or whatever that was) on them...

True! Was waiting for the ski to snap in half as he clicked into the bindings. Shocked

Made some sense to me - explained why you sometimes get 'stuck' to flat bits when you've stopped for a sun cream pfaff/hat pfaff/insert name of favourite pfaff here.... snowHead
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easiski, there is a way, but it's a right pain, and helps to be a Linux techno-geek.

interesting segment, especially the liquid nitrogen bit.
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interesting to watch for someone who doesnt really know much about all the fancy preparation for ski's. Understood how they work, but never realised that there was so many different ways to prepare the skis before waxing (for which I knew there was a white mans magic thing going on)
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So the answer is base preparation and choice of wax. What a revelation. I think the presenter just wanted a spot of licence fee subsidised skiing.
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easiski, Yep using linux helps (but you dont need to be a guru) A simple SSH or VPN tunnel to a fast UK proxy.

http://www.anonymous-proxies.org/2009/02/using-iplayer-abroad-viewing-bbc-via.html

Many of the free proxies are too slow for iplayer streaming but you can always download a programme via one of these and view offline later.

You can pay for high speed proxies like
http://www.identitycloaker.com/cms/home

A google search for "how to view bbc iplayer from abroad" will give you other options.

I simply VPN or ssh-NX-server to my home machine in Glasgow. Happy

Cheers
Bob
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easiski, glasgowcyclops, Tor + FoxyProxy. Surfing the iPlayer bit is slower than slow and may need numerous page refreshes, but the video itself is P2P so not proxied or anything, and works just like in UK. Faff to setup but it does work. No idea how to do that on anything other than Linux though.
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Was interesting (ish) - I never realised that you could have different tread patterns on ski bases
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